screen presence
noun
: a quality that attracts attention in movies
She has tremendous screen presence.
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Her work already reflects a distinct voice and powerful screen presence that resonates with a new generation of storytellers.
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Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025
Her simmering screen presence, filled with raw mistrust reveals — by contrast — the thin atmosphere in the majority of the scenes.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
John is a starving-artist stereotype in search of a character, and Evans, always an appealingly angular and mischievous screen presence, is treated as little more than a hangdog hunk.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
The filmmakers know exactly how to leverage Hawkins’s warm, naturalistic screen presence, using her offbeat sweetness to keep the audience guessing as to her character’s exact level of malevolence.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
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Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025
Her simmering screen presence, filled with raw mistrust reveals — by contrast — the thin atmosphere in the majority of the scenes.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
John is a starving-artist stereotype in search of a character, and Evans, always an appealingly angular and mischievous screen presence, is treated as little more than a hangdog hunk.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
The filmmakers know exactly how to leverage Hawkins’s warm, naturalistic screen presence, using her offbeat sweetness to keep the audience guessing as to her character’s exact level of malevolence.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
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“Screen presence.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/screen%20presence. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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